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Jun 19, 2006
06/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Eric Blehm, author of The Last Season and with Peter Hessler, author of Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present. This is the first on-line only edition of Booktown. It was never aired on KVMR-.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Eric Blehm, The Last Season, Peter Hessler, Oracle bones
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Jul 18, 2006
07/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Elizabeth Rosner about her new novel Blue Nude and with Storyteller Susan Klein. They are both appearing in Nevada County this week. This is an online edition of Booktown. Parts of it have been aired on other KVMR programs.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Jordan Fisher Smith about his new book Nature Noir. (This is a membership drive program with several interruptions to solicit new members.)
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 24, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Camille Paglia about her new book Break, Blow, Burn.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Dec 23, 2008
12/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Booktown's Readers Panel about their favorite books of 2008. The Readers and books included: Alison Jones-Pomatto:
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown
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Apr 2, 2007
04/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Jerry Mander about his most recent book Paradigm Wars: Indigenous People's Resistence to Globablization; and with Larry Gonick about his Cartoon History of the Universe and Cartoon Guides to this and that.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Phyllis M Faber, author of California's Wild Gardens: A Guide to Favorite Botanical Sites; with poets Charles Entrekin and Grace Totherow about the upcoming Listening to the Wild reading in Grass Valley; and with therapist Michael Askins about the Poetry and Healing workshop he will conduct with poet Molly Fisk.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Apr 15, 2008
04/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Wen Huang, translator of the Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up and then with actor, producer and acting teacher Darryl Hickman about his book The Unconscious Actor: Out of Control, In Full Command. Hickman will appear at the Book Seller in Grass Valley at 3 PM on Saturday 19 April.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, Booktown, books, Liao Yiwu, Wen Huang, The Corpse Walker, Darryl Hickman, The...
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Aug 8, 2006
08/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with David Bianculli, TV critic for the New York Daily News and frequent contributor to NPR's Fresh Air, who will be leading several workshops at next week's CSUS Summer Writers' Conference; plays several pieces by Daryl Knight, who will read in the Nevada County Poetry Series' evening of Cowboy Poetry in Grass Valley next week; and talks with Booktown's Brooklyn correspondent Erin Rogers.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Oct 31, 2006
10/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, about his book Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. This interview was conducted over a home computer with sleeping cats in the room. Shadid's voice is somewhat echoey, the waking cats quite clear. He then talks with David Callahan about his book The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots.
Topic: KVMR Book Program
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Jan 22, 2007
01/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about the as yet unnamed book he is writing on the Great Books movement. This is the second of a series on this topic: Eric will check in with Alex every 4-6 months to find out what he's discovering and how the book is progressing. KVMR-FM will broadcast this program on 5 March.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Norman Myers, editor of The New Atlas of Planet Management, then discusses The Average American, whose author Kevin O'Keefe couldn't be reached by phone.
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Dec 27, 2007
12/07
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Eric Tomb talks with Booktown's readers panel--John Deaderick, Cameron Cobden and Alison Jones-Pomatto--about their favorites of the books they read in 2007.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, Booktown, books
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May 23, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with poet Gary Snyder about his new book Danger on Peaks and an overview of his literary career.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb talks with Peter Whitfield about his book of historic maps Cities of the World and then discusses The New Atlas of Planet Management, edited by Norman yers and Jennifer Kent, who were unable to appear on the program.
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May 29, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Peter Schrag, author of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment, and with Nevada City attorney Allan Haley about his proposal for a private library in Nevada County modelled on the Boston Athenaeum
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jun 14, 2006
06/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with University of Victoria law professor Michael M'Gonigle about his new book Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University; and with Nevada County book producers Joan Keyes and Jon Peck about how books are put together these days.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 23, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Cameron Cobden, John Deaderick and Alison Jones-Pomatto about their favorite books of 2005.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book program
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Aug 19, 2008
08/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Alan Weisman about his book The world Without Us and with Rebecca Solnit about her book Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, both of which have just come out in paperback.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Alan Weisman, The World Without Us, Gaviotas, Rebecca...
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Nov 27, 2007
11/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Bill Boyarsky about his new book Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics and with Ruthanne Lum McCunn about her recent novel God of Luck
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Bill Boyarsky, Jesse Unruh, California politics, Ruthanne...
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Jan 22, 2007
01/07
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Eric Tomb
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As part of Booktown's Great Dead Anarchists series, Eric Tomb talks with Barry Pateman about the life and work of American poet, novelist and essayist Paul Goodman. Eric then talks with David Lawler and Leland Pauly, the editors of The Life Story of Bill Meek--Stagecoach Driver. KVMR will broadcast this program on 19 February.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Jul 25, 2006
07/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with actor and author Clint Walker, who will appear this evening at the Nevada Theatre in Nevada City with a presentation of an episode from his classic TV show Cheyenne and his recent novel Yaqui Gold; with outgoing Nevada County Librarian Steve Fjelsted; and with Booktown's Camptonville correspondent John Deaderick. The books Eric and John discuss include * The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (many editions) * Shadowplay by Clare Asquith (Public Affairs) * North American Pinot...
Topic: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Clint Walker, Nevada Theatre, Nevada City, Cheyenne, Yaqui...
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Jan 17, 2009
01/09
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua about her book Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall, which has just come out in paperback, referring occasionally to her earlier book World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. He then talks with Nevada City native Catharine Bramkamp about her latest novel Time is off the Essence. This program is online only and will never air on KVMR.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, kvmr.org, books, Booktown, Amy Chua, Day of Empire, World on Fire, Catharine...
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Jul 24, 2007
07/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about the book he is writing about the Great Books movement. This is the third in a series in which Eric and Alex follow the progress of the book. In honor of Raymond Chandler's birthday, Eric then plays the beginning of a July 1958 BBC program in which Chandler talks with Ian Fleming. This is the only known recording of Chandler's voice.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 23, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Karen Armstrong about her latest book The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions and with Andrew Wingfield about his novel Hear Him Roar.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Sep 1, 2008
09/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Brenda Wineapple,who teaches writing at Columbia University and The New School, about her new book White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. He then talks with Diane Dean-Epps, who teaches English at Nevada Union High School, about her new humorous mystery KILL-TV.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Brenda Wineapple, White Heat, Emily ickinson, Thomas...
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Oct 24, 2009
10/09
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with author Kevin Nelson about his new book Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 M.P.H. The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile. He then talks with historian Gage McKinney about his recent book The 1930s: No Depression Here, a study of the anomalous prosperity that developed in Nevada County during the Great Depression.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Kevin Nelson, Wheels of Change, Gage McKinney, The 1930s No...
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Oct 2, 2007
10/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Chinese novelist and film-maker Guo Xiaolu about her first novel written in English, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, and with Nevada City lepidopterist Michael C Collins about his recently pyblished book Moth-Catcher: An Evolutionist's Journey Through Canyon and Pass.
Topics: KVMR-FM Book Program, books, Booktown, Guo Xiaolu, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers,...
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Mar 31, 2008
03/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Gayle Greene, Professor of English and Women's Studies at Scripps College, about her recent book Insomniac, an impassioned, often angry account of the current state of insomnia research and treatment by a lifelong sufferer. He then talks with local bookseller and author James Van Eaton about his 'epic fantasy' novel Down the Darkening Road.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, Booktown, books, Gayle Greene, Insomniac, James Van Eaton, Down the Darkening...
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Nov 11, 2008
11/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with David Young, Professor Emeritus of English at Oberlin College, about his recently published Du Fu: A Life in Poetry, which arranges the works of the great Chine poet Du Fu chronologically to give an outline of his life; and with Nevada County poet Christine Irving about the about-to-be published chapbook Sex on Earth (and other sordid places), which contains poems by Irving and Noel Kroeplin.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, David Young, Du Fu, Christine Irving, Noel Kroeplin, Sex on...
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Jul 21, 2009
07/09
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Flora Drew, the translator of Ma Jian's powerful novel Beijing Coma, which has just come out in paperback; and with Celtic harpist and storyteller Patrick Ball about the upcoming Sierra Storytelling Festival.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Flora Drew, Ma Jian, Beijing Coma, Patrick Ball, Sierra...
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Nov 14, 2006
11/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Booktown's Camptonville correspondent John Deaderick about his reacent reading, especially David Mitchell's Black Swan Green and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier; with editor Barry Pateman about the work of Edward Carpenter; and with Chris Olander about the Nevada County Poetry Series Giant Open Mic reading, where the NCPS 2006 Anthology will be introduced.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program, books, Booktown, John Deaderick, David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, Ford Madox...
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Mar 8, 2008
03/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Indian-American novelist, poet and children's writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about her latest novel Palace of Illusions, a retelling of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharat from the point of view of Panchaali (aka Draupadi), one of the main female characters. He then talks with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about A Great Idea at the Time, the book he is writing about the Great Books movement. This is the fourth of a series of conversations tracing the development of the...
Topics: Booktown, KVMR-FM book program, books, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Palace of Illusions, Mahabharat,...
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Feb 16, 2010
02/10
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with the author/editor/translator of two compendiums of world literature: first with Peter Constantine, one of the editors and translators of The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present; then with Dennis Tedlock, author and translator of 2000 Years of Mayan Literature.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Peter Constantine, The Greek Poets, Dennis Tedlock, 2000...
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Nov 28, 2006
11/06
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Ronald Quinn, co-author of Introduction to California Chaparral; David Carle, author of Introduction to Air in California; and Maria Brower, author of Nevada City and Gold Rush Towns in Nevada County.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 31, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Hilary Mantel about her novel Beyond Black, which has just come out in paperback; and with poets Molly Fisk, Jane Hilberry and Rynn Williams, who will appear in Grass Valley this Thursday and be the final readers in the Poetry Flash reading series at Cody's Books Telegraph Avenue store in Berkeley next Sunday.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jan 9, 2008
01/08
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Linda Colley, author of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History and Susan Freinkel, author of American Chestnut: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown
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May 24, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with poet Dale Pendell about Pharmako-Gnosis, the final volume in his trilogy on pyschoactive drugs, and with Richard Stockton about his book Fondle the Fear.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Dec 12, 2007
12/07
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with University of Manitoba Professor of Psychology Bob Altemeyer about his book The Authoritarians and with Lewis Hyde about the 25th anniversary edition of his book The Gift.
Topics: KVMR Book Program, Booktown, books, Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarians, Lewis Hyde, The Gift, Walt...
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May 23, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with poet and storyteller Steve Sanfield about his new book The Rain Begins Below: Selected Slightly Longer Poems and with actor Martin Buchanan about his one-man adaptation of Pam Houston's novel Sight Hound.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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May 24, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Kim Stanley Robinson about his science fiction novels and upcoming appearance in Nevada City and with Seattle architect David Sucher about his book City Comforts.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jun 26, 2007
06/07
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with David R Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, about his recent book Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations; then with Nevada County Library Literacy Coordinator Alan Archer.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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May 25, 2006
05/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with David Mas Masumoto, author of Epitaph for a Peach, this year's reading selection for Nevada County Reads; with Joan Bechtel and Linda Cohen, authors of Motherhood Confidential, who will appear at the Book Seller in Grass Valley this weeks; and with Susan Wooldridge, author of poemcrazy, who will appear at the Madelyn Helling Library this week.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jun 23, 2008
06/08
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with the translators of two widely distant but in some ways very similar poets: Peter Green on his translation of the first century BCE Latin poet Catullus and Hiroaki Sato on his translation of the early 20th century Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji. He ends with two short poems read by the 20th century American kindred spirit Frank O'Hara.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Peter Green, Catullus, Hiroaki Sato, Miyazawa Kenji, Frank...
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Sep 15, 2008
09/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb plays a selection from Coleman Barks' CD of his translations of Rumi, Pure Water. Barks presented a similar reaading at the Veterans Building in Grass Valley last Saturday 13 September. He then played a section of a recording of Billy Collins reading his poetry at Boston College in April 2005. Collins has just published a new book of poems, Ballistics.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Coleman Barks, Rumi, Billy Collins, Ballistics
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Apr 30, 2008
04/08
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Tobias Wolff about his new book Our Story Begins: Selected and New Stories, the plays a rcording of T C Boyle reading the story Bullet in the Brain from the collection. He thn talks with David Ambrose about the Picador paperback reissue of his first novel The Man Who Turned Into Himslf, which was originally published in 1993.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, Booktown, books, Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins: Selectd and New Stories,...
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Oct 28, 2008
10/08
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross about his book The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, which has just been issued in paperback; and with David Peattie, publisher of Whereabouts Press, about their Traveler's Literary Companion series.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise, David Peattie, Whereabouts...
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Oct 16, 2006
10/06
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Amy Tan, largely about her latest novel Saving Fish From Drowning; with Jason Roberts, author of A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler; and with Mark Lyon, who will present his one-man play Ghosties and Ghoulies and Long-legged Beasties and tThings that Go Bump in the Night at the Miners Foundry in Nevada city on Thursday 19 October.
Topic: KVMR-FM Book Program
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Jan 9, 2007
01/07
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Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with Karen Cerulo, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University anout her book Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst, and with Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, about his book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization.
Topic: KVMR-FM book program
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Jun 10, 2008
06/08
by
Eric Tomb
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Eric Tomb talks with two Nevada County historians about their most recent books: with Hank Meals about The River: Hiking Trails and History of the South Fork of the Yuba River; and with Orval Bronson about Launched into Eternity: Lynching and Judicial Executions in 19th Century Nevada County.
Topics: KVMR-FM book program, books, Booktown, Hank Meals, The River, Yuba River, South Yuba River, Orval...
